BENGALURU: Housing Minister Zameer Ahmed Khan has directed gram panchayats to finalise and send a list of beneficiaries under the Pradhan Mantri Grameen Awaz Yojana (PMGAY) scheme within a week for the construction of houses for the homeless in rural areas.
“Under the centrally sponsored scheme, 1.41 lakh houses have been allotted to the state and so far, 63,000 houses have been selected and the remaining 78,000 houses are yet to be selected. The MLAs concerned should take note of this and immediately take a personal interest in finalising the list of beneficiaries from the gram panchayats”, he said.
The minister said, “Though the deadline for selecting the beneficiaries of the scheme has already been extended twice, the list has not been given. The deadline for finalising the list is now extended to July 20. Therefore, the MLAs who have not finalised the list so far should take immediate action. Otherwise, the project will go back to the Centre”.
“A list of homeless people in rural areas has been prepared and those who are eligible for the scheme have been identified. In the list, the number of beneficiaries has to be selected as per the number of houses allotted for allotment. If the MLAs inform the gram panchayats and finalise the list within a week, the benefit of the scheme will go to the homeless in the state. The selection process will be done online”, Zameer Khan said.
He said that the central and state governments will provide 60:40 grants for the project. For the general category, Rs 1,03,000 will be given as subsidy and for the SC and ST communities, Rs 1.20 lakh will be given, the minister said, and added that a house of 150 to 700 sqft will be constructed.
Apart from the rural housing scheme, the selection of beneficiaries for housing schemes in urban areas is to be done by a committee of MLAs and 2,90,878 beneficiaries are to be selected in various schemes, including urban and rural. The MLAs have also been requested to do so. As soon as the MLAs give the selection list of beneficiaries, the allotment and other processes will be carried out, he said. (ANI)